Improving Access to Home Dialysis Act of 2021

Based on the population health-related bill you selected, develop a 1- to 2-page Legislation Testimony/Advocacy Statement that addresses the following:
* Advocate a position for the population health-related bill you selected and write testimony in support for your position.
* Describe how you would address the opponent(s) to your position. Be specific and provide examples.
* Recommend at least one amendment to the bill in support of your position.
* A minimum of 2 outside and 2–3 course-specific resources should be utilized and properly cited.

Course resources:
Milstead, J. A., & Short, N. M. (2019). Health policy and politics: A nurse’s guide (6th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
* Chapter 3, “Government Response: Legislation” (pp. 37–56)
* Chapter 10, “Overview: The Economics and Finance of Health Care”
* Section: “Finance: Healthcare Entitlement Programs” (pp. 180–183)
WEBSITE: CONGRESS.GOV
Congress.gov

Cultural Differences in the Use of Mental and Physical Health Services

Determine Cultural Differences in the Use of Mental and Physical Health Services

Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal
Write a brief introduction (2 to 3 sentences) to your proposal that outlines the issue you
are attempting to solve, the part of the organization in which the plan would be carried out, and
the desired outcome. This will set the stage for the sections below.
Objective
Describe what your plan will do and what you hope it will accomplish in one or two succinct
sentences. Also, comment on how the objective, if achieved, will improve organizational or
patient outcomes. For example:
Test a double-loop feedback model for evaluating new product risk with a small group of project
managers with the goal of reducing the number of new products that fail to launch. This
objective is aligned to the broader organizational goal of becoming more efficient taking
products to market and, if successful, should improve outcomes by reducing waste.
Questions and Predictions
For this section ask yourself 3 to 5 questions about your objective and your overall plan. Make a
prediction for each question by answering the question you posed. This helps you to define the
important aspects of your plan as well as limit the scope and check its ability to be implemented.
For example:
1. How much time will using a double-loop feedback model add to a project manager’s
workload?

a. At first, it will likely increase their workloads by 5 to 10 percent. However, as the
process is refined and project managers become more familiar and efficient, that
percentage will decrease.
Change Theories and Leadership Strategies
For this section, you may wish to draw upon the research you did regarding change theories and
leadership for the Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Identification assessment. The focus of
this section is how those best practices will create buy-in for the project from an interdisciplinary
team, improve their collaboration, and/or foster the team’s ability to implement the plan. Be sure
that you are including at least one change theory and at least one leadership strategy in your
explanation. Always remember to cite your sources; direct quotes require quotation marks and a
page or paragraph number to be included in the citation.
Another way to approach your explanations in this section is to think through the following:
• What is the theory or strategy?
• How will it likely help an interdisciplinary team to collaborate, implement, and/or buy in
to the project plan?
o Make sure to frame this explanation within the organizational context of the
proposed plan, that is, your interviewee’s organization.

Team Collaboration Strategy
In this section, begin by further defining the responsibilities and actions that represent the
implementation of the plan. One strategy to defining this is to take a “who, what, where, and
when” approach for each team member.
For example:
• Project Manager A will apply the double-loop feedback model on one new product
project for a single quarter.
• Project Manager B will apply the double-loop feedback model on all new product
projects for a quarter.
Vice President A will review the workloads of project managers using the double-loop feedback
model every Thursday for one quarter.
After you have roughly outlined the roles and responsibilities of team members, you will explain
one or more collaborative approaches that will enable the team to work efficiently to achieve the
plan’s objective. As with the change theories and leadership strategies, you may draw on the
research you conducted for the Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Identification assessment.
However, you are being asked to give a more in-depth explanation of the collaboration
approaches and look at how they will help the theoretical interdisciplinary team in your plan
proposal.
Another way to approach your explanations in this section is to think through the following:
• What is the collaboration approach?

• What types of collaboration and teamwork will best help the interdisciplinary team be
successful?
• How is the collaboration approach relevant to the team’s needs and will it help drive
success?
o Make sure to frame this explanation in terms of the subject of the plan proposal;
that is, your interviewee’s organization.
Required Organizational Resources
For this section, you will be making rough estimates of the resources needed for your plan
proposal to be successful. This section does not have to be exact but the estimates should be
realistic for the chosen organization.
Items you should include or address in this section:
• What are the staffing needs for your plan proposal?
• What equipment or supplies are needed for your plan proposal?
o Does the organization already have these?
▪ If so, what is the cost associated with using these resources?
▪ If not, what is the cost of acquiring these resources?
• What access (to patients, departments, and so forth) is needed?
o Are there any costs associated with these?

• What is the overall financial budget request for the plan proposal?
o Staff time, resource use, resource acquisition, and access charged?
▪ Remember to include a specific dollar amount in your request.
After you have detailed your budget, make sure that you explain any impacts on organizational
resources that could happen if your plan is not undertaken and successful. In other words, if the
issue you are try to solve through your plan proposal persists or gets worse, what will be the
potential costs to the organization?
References

Implementing Best Practice (Level 6 writing) Mental Health Nursing

Implementing Best Practice (Level 6 writing) Mental health nursing
Paper details:
Assignment structure:
Article title
Abstract
Key words up to 6
Background
Methods
Article title: The title should provide an outline of your chosen area of evidence-based practice, this needs to be concise, accurate, and informative and 10-15
words long
Abstract: The main question, methods, findings, and conclusions of the review (200–250 advised, but words not included in the overall 3000-word count)
Background: Present the background information related to your chosen area of evidence-based practice and the reasons for your review. Introduce your formulated question using PICO (qualitative) and clearly state the aim of your literature review (400 – 450 words)
Methods: You will need to look at the evidence base for your chosen topic. This will require an effective literature review and a clear but brief account of your search strategy. This will require the identification of 6 primary research articles. Key words, exclusion and inclusion criteria, utilised databases can be presented as Tables in-text. You should utilise an appropriate appraisal tool, briefly highlight the tool and the results in-text (450-500 words)
Findings: The findings of these six research studies should be stated with an overall summary and synthesis of the results. Note the main
points/themes/issues of the literature in relation to your research question (750 – 800 words)
Implementation of best practice: Identify a key issue/intervention from your review of the research findings that could be implemented in clinical practice.
Using an implementation model as a framework, consider how you would implement the approach in practice taking into account key stakeholders (900 – 1000 words)
Conclusion: Complete your article with a brief conclusion drawing together the key ideas that specifically answered your research question and summarise implications of your findings for practice (200 – 250 words).
Summary and synthesise
When discussing your research articles – please use author and date rather than numbering them e.g. Smiddy et al (2022) rather than Article 1
You will need to very briefly identify the research design of each study – however, you are not required to critique the research itself
This section requires you to read critically – get to know your six articles in-depth particularly the findings – this is important for this section but also for ‘Implementation of Best Practice’
You will need to synthesise these findings
Critical Analyse
The key here – is to move your discussion to analysis, how?
Use third person in your discussion
Use comparative discussion
What were the similarities and differences in the study findings?
Similarities can be pulled together as key issues or themes
Can you link these issues/themes to other references sources e.g. if you find that a key theme is a lack of knowledge and training in relation to the care of individuals with long-term conditions – we can bring in NMC requirements to keep the practice up to date, we can link to the Long-Term Conditions Strategy
– so we have not only linked a number of research study findings but also linked to standards and policy
Referencing – should follow LSBU Harvard referencing, with a minimum of 35 references
Document Layout
* 2.0 line spacing
* Size 12 font Arial
* Page number as a footer on all pages
Keep to third person please
Findings
Implementation of best practice
Conclusion
Topic Mental Health nurses have an important role to play in meeting the physical health needs of service users.
Question:
1 From the above topic given, develop the topic into a question i.e generate an answerable question. This should be searchable and answerable.
2 The title should provide an outline of your chosen area of evidence-based practice, this needs to be concise, accurate, and informative and 10-15 words long, (3) Write the question following the PICO format
P – who is the population/individual/group under study?
I – what is it exactly about this population that you want to address? what do you
want to do to get a better outcome for this population?
C – Statistical comparison/Findings. (Compare I and C). what are the alternatives
or other options for intervention
O – Outcome – what do you want to change?
SEARCH STRATEGY (USE CINAHL AS THIS IS SPECIFICALLY FOR NURSING)
1. Go to search programme. to find evidence to support your question.
2. Use Booleans, Truncations, Inclusion/Exclusion.
3. Choose 6 papers from your search. They must be similar papers around the same
topic related to your generated question.
4. Review and appraise the selected articles. DO NOT go in-depth of each article due
to the word count limitation.
5. Identify ONE key area that could potentially be implemented in a mental health
nursing practice setting (must be in relation to your generated question.
IMPLEMENTATION
1. understand the implementation model i.e the Ottawa model and follow a six-step approach to guide the implementation of an innovation
2. Talk about the implementation model you are going to use to implement your key area

3. Choose 6 papers from your search. They must be similar papers around the same
topic related to your generated question.
4. Review and appraise the selected articles. DO NOT go in-depth of each article due
to the word count limitation.
5. Identify ONE key area that could potentially be implemented in a mental health
nursing practice setting (must be in relation to your generated question.
IMPLEMENTATION
1. understand the implementation model i.e the Ottawa model and follow a six-step approach to guide the implementation of an innovation
2. Talk about the implementation model you are going to use to implement your key area
of focus
3. Demonstrate how you can implement this model step-by-step in a mental health
nursing practice setting.
4. what are the pros/cons you may encounter in the process – i.e is it cost-effective?
5. Demonstrate as much as you can on the cost of the problem that exists and the cost of not changing practice.
TIP
1. Start with looking for something in practice (Mental Health Setting) that could be
done better. What is the clinical concern or uncertainty? Need to document that
something is not working as expected or as well as it should.
2. Find the best evidence to answer the question
2. After generating the question, you must decide what makes this a priority.
2. Critically appraise the evidence
3. Apply the Evidence
4. Evaluate practice.
CONSIDER – Do these implementations already exist? i.e Check NICE guidelines,
WHO, DoH.
The assignment is not research, use words such as the author or writer

Reflective writing – Essay

 Reflective Learning Journal

 Questions

What’s my interest in the course?

What’s my interest in the lecture?

What’s my reaction to a particular topic in this lecture?

What’s my opinion on the content of the course?

How has my learning evolved throughout the course?

What points you’ve learned from the activities?

Give one or two examples of your most successful acts in the activities. Try to explain what things you did that made them successful.

Give one or two examples, if relevant, of errors or less successful acts in the activities. What did you do wrong or fail to do in each case?

The next time you confront a similar situation, what if anything, could you do differently to increase your learning?